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Biography: Tim Gibbon is Director of the CBC and Associate Professor in the Department of Physics. In 2007 he received a PhD in Physics from NMMU in the field of optical communication. From 2008-2010 he was Postdoctoral Researcher at DTU Fotonik in Demark, working closely with industry developing next-generation WDM-PON technologies. Tim is an NRF rated scientist and has published over 70 papers on topics including long-haul impairments, metro-access technologies, passive optical networks, FTTH, photonic UWB, and optical fibre telescope networks. He currently leads NMMU work on the SKA Project, with further industry and academic collaborations across Africa, Europe, China and Australia.